Europe | My Eyes Tokyo

The sympathy with the aftermath of the earthquake almost doesn’t exist abroad. But there are still tons of problems to be solved in Tohoku.

2016-03-07

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Andrew Grimes Psychotherapist/Clinical Psychologist One day, we received a mail from a gentleman. “I am very impressed by your website and the interviews there. If you would be interested in interviewing me, I would be grateful to you. We need to remind the rest of the country that there are still tens of thousands of people and children living in poor accommodation and with the fear of radiation”. He is Andrew Grimes, a UK-born psychologist/psychotherapist who has been working in Tokyo for about 30 years. He asked us to

The city lacks nature, people don’t take days off… But Tokyo improved my life!

2015-11-25

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Jenna Röhrs (Germany) Event organizer/Model/Entertainer Jenna Röhrs is from a Baltic small town in Germany. One of our Japanese friends introduced us to her online first. We almost backed away because she looks really beautiful. But actually she was so friendly when we met her, so we enjoyed the interview; it was like chatting. She expressed her love for Japan, but sometimes she pointed out some Japanese work habits. We thought, “Japanese companies would be truly global if they hire her”. *Interview in Harajuku *Edited by Daniel Penso 校正協力：ダニエル・ペンソ日本語

Japanese don’t realize how good their image in the world is and how good of a reputation Japan has.

2015-06-04

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Nikola Pavesic (Croatia) Startup for startups twitter: @nikpavesic We found a unique recruitment service on Twitter. They provide their services mainly to Japanese startups, and most of its staff members are non-Japanese. In other words, non-Japanese recruiters support Japanese startups. We wanted to thank them and got really interested in their idea. The name of the recruitment service is called “JUSTA”, which was launched by a gentleman from Croatia with the support of Red Brick Ventures, a venture company from Tokyo. We tweeted that we want to interview them and

If I made an unfunny joke, I could say, “I guess it’s ‘cause I’m from Sweden”. Do you know why?

2015-04-18

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Johan Nilsson Björk (Sweden) Rakugo Performer We have introduced to you Kimie Oshima, a Japanese “English-rakugo (落語)” performer before, but now we have another. This time from… Sweden! His name is Johan Nilsson Björk, a.k.a Borubo-tei Ikeya. “Borubo” means Volvo, the Swedish automotive company, and “Ikeya” refers to IKEA, the world-famous Swedish furniture retailer. A professional rakugo performer gave him such a great stage name. Johan discovered rakugo in Japan and decided to settle in the country after going back home once. His reason Because he fell in love

Finding lucky in the unluckiest of tragedies (Serbia)

2014-11-13

By Anna Fujiwara (My Eyes Tokyo) 日本語 In a charity event for the tragic Serbian flood of May 2014, jointly hosted by The International Center in Tokyo and My Eyes Tokyo (MET), MET had the opportunity to interview Ms. Jelena Jeremic from the Republic of Serbia and a cooking instructor of Serbian cuisine in Tokyo, and Mr. Nemanja Grbić, Attaché for the Serbian embassy, both whom are currently residents of Tokyo. Serbia and Japan have reached out to one another in times of tragedy and need, with Serbia offering help after the March 11 earthquake of Tohoku, and Japan

You’ll have stimulating experiences if you interact with people from other countries.

2012-10-03

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Tao Romera Martinez (Spain) Engineer of Sanpo The 1st interview with a man from Spain! Tao Romera Martinez, an engineer of the smartphone application service called “Sanpo“. Sanpo (散歩, walk or outing in Japanese) is like “Google Map for people who enjoy the slow life”. Google Map shows the shortest distance from A to B, but Sanpo tells you the courses from A to B that are wonderful to stroll or cycling irrespective of distance. We got to know the existence of this service at Samurai Venture Summit (Sept 2012),

I don’t want to associate my activities with the anti-nuclear movement.

2012-06-20

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Kateryna (Ukraine) Bandura player/singer (She’s been in Japan since Dec.2006) We interviewed a foreign musician in Tokyo for the first time in ages – introducing Kateryna from Ukraine. A friend of ours took us to a piano concert. She knows that we’ve been interviewing foreigners so she provided us the chance to meet Kateryna. It consisted of two parts and she performed in the beginning of the second part. A woman in a colorful costume beautifully plucked an Ukrainian instrument called “Bandura“, which has dozens of strings, and began to

I’ve learned Japanese culture while I taught Russian culture.

2012-04-01

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Averiyanova Lyudmila (Russia) Trading farm staff/Russian Cafe organizer (First visit to Japan in 1998, Returned to Japan in 2006) One day we were invited to a Russian language salon by our friend. It’s called “Russian Cafe”, which is held near JR Urawa Station in Saitama Prefecture on the first Sunday of each month. It was amazing! 90% of the participants are Japanese, but they were talking to each other in Russian really fluently. And our friend introduced us to Averiyanova Lyudmila, one of the participants in the salon. We’ve met

I believe conflicts can be resolved with a ball.

2012-02-07

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Daisuke Ikenaga Part2 Playing manager of French baseball team We bring you the interview of Daisuke Ikenaga, a playing manager of the French baseball team called “Savigny Lions”. Now we tell you his activities as a bridge between Japan and France. – Daisuke Ikenaga – Born in Tokyo in 1980. He started playing the baseball in 5th grade. After he graduated university, he worked part-time and took team tryout tests. Moved to the US in 2005 he joined a team called “Japan Samurai Bears” there. After the US, he played

French farm players were almost all amateurs. I wondered whether they could play catch well.

2012-02-07

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Daisuke Ikenaga Part1 Playing manager of French baseball team Have you heard of the “independent baseball league”? In Japan, there are independent leagues separate from the professional baseball. There are 4 leagues in Japan called respectively “Baseball Challenge League” “Shikoku Island League Plus” “Kansai Independent League” and “Girl’s Professional Baseball League“. Today we introduce you to a young baseball player who works as a bridge between Japanese independent leagues and a French team. Daisuke Ikenaga, a playing manager of the French baseball team called “Savigny Lions”. We met him through

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